Blue Hour - Unearthed

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  • Unearthed is the latest from Blue Hour, the Berlin-based techno artist otherwise known as Luke Standing. Like the majority of his music, it arrives on his self-titled label, where the producer has steadily been chasing darker and more intense sounds. In the last two years, these tracks have proved their effectiveness on Function's Berghain 07 mix and the recent Infrastructure Facticity compilation. Now, still very much in Berghain mode, Unearthed delivers two more Blue Hour staples: punishing techno tools with wildly dense atmospheres. Both tracks feature busy-but-rigid percussive layers, giving them a locked-in kind of hypnosis. "Lip Plate" is the more severe, beginning at full capacity and then rotating through an arsenal of searing hi-hats and rusty, heavy-duty drums that push the tension even higher. "Unearthed" takes a nice step away from Standing's usual concrete-grey palette. The drum sounds have a warm, tribal feel to them, but the track is still zeroed in on a bruising and repetitive kick. By now, it's clear Standing has this kind of banger down to a science.
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      A Lip Plate B Unearthed
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